First Ever Space Shuttle Landing (STS-1, Columbia)
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Welcome home Columbia beautiful
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Welcome home Columbia beautiful
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Welcome home columbia beautiful
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I watched this live, and held my breath all the way thru final approach, landing and rollout. My dad's last project at Rockwell International had been building the tooling for the Shuttle Orbiter Assembly Building at Palmdale, CA. A certain family pride was in evidence at that moment.
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@jelneutron3 It WAS new...! This is a video of the first shuttle (orbiter) landing!
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I was 9 and watched this live on CBS... when Columbia came to a halt Dan Rather said "there's plenty of time to talk and plenty to talk about, but let's take a deep breath and suck up this moment" and that's exactly what I did.
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I've always thought how amazing it would have been to be in one of the "chase jets" escorting the shuttle to safely.
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i was not even born when this happened and i now work for NASA. This is truly history.
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Seems like they needed to tune that speedbrake/nosegear touchdown timing a bit better... And I was 3yrs 'old' when this happened. :)
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what a clean looking shuttle. as if it was new.



T minus 7 years until my birth :-)
Hubieee 6 months ago 3
I have to hand it you you Americans. You guys rock when it comes to space flight. But to be honest. Concorde wad probably the greater invention. Mach 2.2 drinking champagne on the way to new York in 3.5 hours. But I love the shuttle. You guys are awesome.
babymike737 5 months ago 2